Privacy Coin Defies Crypto Downtick, Jumps in Price Amid New Coinbase Feature Launch

Zcash (ZEC) defied a wider crypto market downtick and jumped by 12% on Thursday as Coinbase rolled out a new feature for the privacy coin.

ZEC outpaced the overall crypto market cap, which dropped by nearly 2% over the same time period, according to CoinGecko.

The 141st-ranked crypto asset is also up nearly 29% in the past week. ZEC is trading at $32.95 at time of writing, up from $29.15 one day ago.

On Thursday, Coinbase announced that its users can now send Zcash to TEX addresses.

Zcash has multiple types of addresses, including transparent addresses (t-addresses) and private/shielded addresses (z-addresses), which employ zero-knowledge proofs to enable transaction data to be encrypted but remain verifiable by network nodes.

Zcash TEX addresses are receiving addresses that require funds to be sent from transparent addresses.

Explains the Zcash Wallet Blog,

“TEX addresses make it impossible to send funds from a Shielded Address. In practice, that means you will need to send funds from your Shielded Balance to one of your own Transparent Addresses and then from here to the receiver’s TEX address…

Due to governments weaponizing money against protestors, citizens of countries they disagree with, etc., they are increasingly interested in stripping people of the human right of privacy. As a result, they are creating more regulator pressure on intermediaries like Binance. This has resulted in policies such as all funds deposited into Binance must come from a transparent address. This requirement meant Binance gave an ultimatum of either enforce this at the protocol level or we will delist Zcash and the result was that TEX addresses were born.”

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